Battleground: 7 in 10 say US ‘on the edge of civil war’

[Averageman]

Then I mentioned that 'neither Sanders or Pocahontas has really said how they'd pay for it' whereupon our buddy at the next table reentered the conversation: 'have you actually read Bernie Sanders' plan for health care?'
Boys and girls, you can't use facts to refute the committed on either side. This young man, who works at Taco Bell and Burger King, and was setting in McDonalds for their wifi connection, explained to us how just a little socialism was needed to correct our problems.
My goodness, bless his heart.

You couldn't just pull a bike lock out of your bag and....
Never mind, blase at this point.

[TomMcC]

Why would I want to read anything ever from that commie knucklehead. He's never had a good idea in his entire life.

[Diamondback]

Why would I want to read anything ever from that commie knucklehead. He's never had a good idea in his entire life.

No better weapon to club somebody over the head with than his own words...

[flenna]

For accuracy's sake - privately owned, correct?

I feel where we got the disconnect really started was when a large number of Americans started investing in mutual funds. In turn this gave the funds tremendous clout in dealing with businesses because of the shares they controlled. Which led first to companies being run to maximize shareholder returns at the expense of long-term health of the company and it's employees.

How to rein that in without ruining things is beyond my skillset, but IMO that is what needs to be done in order to have wages on the bottom float up to where they need to be and have wages at the top float down to where they realistically need to be.

Correct, it is a privately owned company. I don't think there is any way to float wages up or down without government interference, which would be a terrible idea. Leaving government bureaucrats to determine who should get paid what would be disastrous. This is coming with the ComDems' wealth tax they are proposing. They know that taxing billionaires to pay the $53 trillion Medicare for all plan will not be near enough. So the definition of "wealthy" will be drastically reduced until the middle class is taxed out of existence.

[prepare]

At this point, no matter who the potus is, I don't see people uniting or coming together. The divisions are to deep between socialists and capitalists or conservatives. When facts and truth dont matter and reason and logic don't work your options are limited. Until the time is right...

[TomMcC]

No better weapon to club somebody over the head with than his own words...

Times too short. I'll let the Bernieite read it and when he repeats it to me then I'll club him.

[tgizzard]

If the power goes out / if the ebt cards go out / if the economy crashes ... I could see those things leading to massive unrest, not sure about full on civil war though.

But people are crazy out there these days, point and case ..

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-stabbe...ry?id=66758004

A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death at a Popeyes in Maryland on Monday night after a fight over the restaurant's chicken sandwich, police said.

If people are willing to stab each other to death for a sandwich, I'm sure it's not going to take much to set the mob off.

[Tx_Aggie]

Correct, it is a privately owned company. I don't think there is any way to float wages up or down without government interference, which would be a terrible idea. Leaving government bureaucrats to determine who should get paid what would be disastrous. This is coming with the ComDems' wealth tax they are proposing. They know that taxing billionaires to pay the $53 trillion Medicare for all plan will not be near enough. So the definition of "wealthy" will be drastically reduced until the middle class is taxed out of existence.

The destruction of the middle class has always been part of the plan, at least for those following (or inspired by) the Marxist blueprint.

It's just easier to convince the bourgeoisie to go along with it if they believe you're not including them in the "wealthy" you intend to tax into poverty.

[ramairthree]

It’s my understanding that if you taxed the top one percent, including capital gains, at 100%,
You could cover national budget expenditures for a handful of months.

Do the same to the next 9%, because they are rich too. You could cover another handful of months.

Then then next 40% of the population under current taxes brings it home for the year.

Next year is going to be a bitch though. Because you have cleaned out the top ten percent and they are not playing anymore.

Fifty percent of the population is consuming resources without paying for anything. In terms of citizens.
Now add on illegals, refugees, etc.

And, the non producing portion of people here are knocking out more kids than the producers. And a disproportionate amount of those offspring enter adulthood as non producers.

And we are importing more and more non producers on top of the homegrown ones.


And regarding the producers, the net positive tax payers, there are a bunch of useless people. They are going to lose jobs as belts tighten, be replaced by automation, etc. and become part of the non producers.

With increasing ages, non producers are sucking up resources longer than ever. Formerly productive people now will take up far more SS/Medicaid than they ever paid in.

The country basically just maxes out credit cards and gets new credit cards to pay off the minimum interest payment on the maxed out cards.

If we stop supporting people to do nothing, stop saving drug addicts, stop giving SSDI/Medicaid to people that drank their liver and kidneys to dear, adopt reasonable comfort care vs heroic effort medical policies, stop importing net less people, we can slow this.

Reversing it would take a little more effort.
Go to Venezuela and Iraq, kill everyone, take the oil.
When the Saudis and other get PO’d,
Do the same. Cut Russia and China into some of the territory and oil and we’ll be good to go.
Some regions of Africa also seem fine to kill off and acquire for other resources.

Non productive citizens are sent to these places to work, in exchange for property and a good life, or starve.

We simply need an old school lord emperor god king type with a low threshold to rape, pillage, and burn.

[Esq.]

It’s my understanding that if you taxed the top one percent, including capital gains, at 100%,
You could cover national budget expenditures for a handful of months.

Do the same to the next 9%, because they are rich too. You could cover another handful of months.

Then then next 40% of the population under current taxes brings it home for the year.

Next year is going to be a bitch though. Because you have cleaned out the top ten percent and they are not playing anymore.

Fifty percent of the population is consuming resources without paying for anything. In terms of citizens.
Now add on illegals, refugees, etc.

And, the non producing portion of people here are knocking out more kids than the producers. And a disproportionate amount of those offspring enter adulthood as non producers.

And we are importing more and more non producers on top of the homegrown ones.


And regarding the producers, the net positive tax payers, there are a bunch of useless people. They are going to lose jobs as belts tighten, be replaced by automation, etc. and become part of the non producers.

With increasing ages, non producers are sucking up resources longer than ever. Formerly productive people now will take up far more SS/Medicaid than they ever paid in.

The country basically just maxes out credit cards and gets new credit cards to pay off the minimum interest payment on the maxed out cards.

If we stop supporting people to do nothing, stop saving drug addicts, stop giving SSDI/Medicaid to people that drank their liver and kidneys to dear, adopt reasonable comfort care vs heroic effort medical policies, stop importing net less people, we can slow this.

Reversing it would take a little more effort.
Go to Venezuela and Iraq, kill everyone, take the oil.
When the Saudis and other get PO’d,
Do the same. Cut Russia and China into some of the territory and oil and we’ll be good to go.
Some regions of Africa also seem fine to kill off and acquire for other resources.

Non productive citizens are sent to these places to work, in exchange for property and a good life, or starve.

We simply need an old school lord emperor god king type with a low threshold to rape, pillage, and burn.

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